Albums

★★★★★ Cahalen Morrison & Eli West’s ‘The Holy Coming of the Storm’ gets a big thumbs up!

★★★★★ A Future Tethered is the latest release from Butcher the Bar, an easy listening pop folk album but lacking a heartfelt approach.

★★★★★ The new album from husband and wife duo Rapunzel and Sedayne, ‘Songs from the Barley Temple’, is a mesmerising mixture of old folk ballads and newly penned songs.

★★★★ Lincoln Durham’s debut album The Shovel vs The Howling Bones has all the markings of an early classic.

★★★★★ Emily Portman’s new EP ‘Hinge of the Year’ is a stunning release that mixes tradition with dark fairytale like twists. Wherever she takes her inspiration from I hope it is bottomless!

Jeffrey Foucault’s Cold Satellite finally sees a European release. The songs are based around unpublished poems and fragments from the young poet Lisa Olstein.

★★★★★ Read our latest interview with Three Cane Whale, a multi-instrumental trio from Bristol with a fresh, innovative approach to music.

★★★★★ The Woodbine & Ivy Band are a group of Manchester musicians who have gathered the cream of British folk singers to create one of the best folk albums of our time.

★★★★★ Few bands manage to combine playfulness in melody with heartfelt lyrics in the way Goodnight Lenin do.

★★★★★ Iarla Ó Lionáird proves he still can reach new levels of expression on his latest release ‘Foxlight’, which features a fascinating group of collaborators including Jon Hopkins.

Catherine MacLellan, one the finest voices in North American folk music, makes her first performance in Scotland. Rachel Devine was there for the prestigious gig.

Karine Polwart is at the very pinnacle of Scottish music. If ‘Here’s Where Tomorrow Starts’ is anything to go by, we can look forward to her reaching even greater heights in the future.